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epithetry

noun

Etymology

From epithet + -ry.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from ἐπίθετον
  3. derived from epithetum
  4. derived from épithète
  5. suffixed as epithetry — “epithet + ry”

Definitions

  1. The art or practice of using epithets.

    • Chang Loi’s ancestry with choice bits of elephant-folk epithetry so tangful they made even Barnsdale’s accustomed ears to pringle with their novelty and warmth.
    • Political epithetry of course is quite different from gobbledygook or bafflegab, which means bureaucratic lingo; we are keeping our pulse on bafflegab, too, but have time here only to report one new addition: 'quid pro quid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for epithetry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA